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Devops Leader
The DevOps Leader course is a unique and practical experience for participants who want to take a transformational leadership approach and make an impact within their organization by implementing DevOps. Leading people through a DevOps evolution requires new skills, tools, innovative thinking, and transformational leadership. The course highlights the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies.
The training covers the full syllabus of the Devops Leader module and prepares all the participants to take the Devops Leader exam.
Devops Leader is a course that highlights the human dynamics of cultural change and equips participants with practices, methods, and tools to engage people across the DevOps spectrum through the use of real-life scenarios and case studies. Upon completion of the course, participants will have
tangible takeaways to leverage when back in the office such as understanding Value Stream Mapping.
The course was developed by leveraging key DevOps leadership sources to extract real-life best practices in leading DevOps initiatives and has been designed to teach the key differences and emerging practices for DevOps ways of working through leadership in a fast-paced DevOps and Agile environment.
The course includes the exam to obtain the Certification Devops Leader.
QRP organizes DevOps Leader courses upon request. Contact us to find out more or have a look at our scheduled DevOps Leadership training.
Devops Leader Training
Objectives
The learning objectives for DevOps Leader include a practical understanding of:
- DevOps and time to value
- Mindset and mental models
- Key differences between DevOps IT and traditional IT
- Target operating models and organizational design
- Performance management, rewards and motivation
- Preparing investment cases
- Focusing on value outcomes
- Ideas for organizing workflows
- Empowerment and participation
- Defining meaningful metrics
- Value stream mapping
- Driving cultural and behavioral change
Target Audience
The target audience for the DevOps Leader course are professionals including:
- Anyone starting or leading a DevOps cultural transformation program
- Anyone interested in modern IT leadership and organizational change approaches
- Business Managers
- Business Stakeholders
- Change Agents
- Consultants
- DevOps Consultants
- DevOps Engineers
- IT Directors
- IT Managers
- IT Team Leaders
- Lean Coaches
- Practitioners
- Product Owners
- Scrum Masters
- System Integrators
- Tool Providers
Devops Leader Examination Design
- Number of questions: 40
- Type of questions: multiple choice
- Marks: 40 marks available.
- Provisional pass mark: 65% or higher
- Duration: 90 minutes (112 for non-native speakers)
- This is a ‘closed book’ examination
The Certification Exam takes place the last day of the course, the third day, in the afternoon. Open-course participants may need to bring their laptop in order to take the on-line exam.
Prerequisites
Familiarity with IT terminology and IT related work experience are recommended. The Foundation exam must have been passed.
The pre-reading material will be available before of the beginning of the course, participants are encouraged to study it before the beginning of the course. A good knowledge of English is mandatory
Documentation
The following Devops Leader course material is included for this event:
- Pre-Event Study Materials
- The event preparation materials include a structured Pre-Event Study Guide- available online.
- Devops Leader Event Handout
- This handout contains case study, exercises and solutions, Devops Leader test-exams and hints & tips for the Devops Leader Examination.
- Devops Leader Learner Manual ebook
- Learner Manual ebook (excellent post-class reference)
- Devops glossary
- Access to additional sources of information and communitie
Devops Leader Exam
- Number of questions: 40
- Type of questions: multiple choice
- Marks: 40 marks available.
- Provisional pass mark: 65% or higher
- Duration: 90 minutes (112 for non-native speakers)
- This is a ‘closed book’ examination
- Language: English